Word: melodye
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His new one of "Stardust" starts out on excellent ideas--distinctly unusual since even the purists usually give the public the benefit of a "straight" melody first chorus. But while his ideas are startling and beautifully executed, they never withdraw from the velvety tone of the Dorsey type--a criticism...
Faure is essentially a song-writer--in fact it has been said that all his best works are songs, whether written for voice or not. Nevertheless, the Requiem and Pelleas and Melisande are enough in themselves to prove Faure's effectiveness in music for orchestral and choral groups. It is...
It certainly is sweet music to report that these rumors are all wet, that Hines is still the only man playing jazz who keeps up really original ideas, and does a great many of them in dynamics of rhythm rather than in strict melody. He does the weirdest off-beat...
Only recently Gene Autry, now the dandiest, gaudiest, most popular singing cowboy in all Hollywood, turned down an offer of $3,000 to endorse a cigaret, because he does not smoke and his vast fandom knows it. But he gum-chews like a kraut cutter. So last Sunday night Gene...
The Diferencias by Cabezon is the earliest composition on the program and represents the work of one of the first great figures in Spanish music. It also typifies one of the first forms in which keyboard music was composed. Writing variations on a melody was of course a very obvious...